FOOTBALL: 5 games to go and Rugby Town’s season reached May 5

Trip to Lye Town this weekend

Rugby Town enhanced their opportunities of a top half surface in the MFL Premier Department table after an encouraging week saw them earn four points from their 2 fixtures against greater placed sides, writes Jon Venner.Valley followed up on their 1-1 draw at Worcester by overturning a goal deficit to defeat Sporting Khalsa on Tuesday night- with Stuart Hendrie on target in both matches to extend his current scoring run to four objectives in 3 matches.Town now have just 5 games delegated play this season, but the fixture pile-up somewhere else in the league has actually led the MFL to approve a one week extension to the term to enable groups additional time to complete their commitments.This means that Rugby now take a trip to Coventry United– who are the outermost behind with 13 video games still remaining– on Thursday, May 3 and they then host Loughborough University on Saturday, May 5, a week on from the originally planned season end at Westfields(April 28 ). Town’s other two video games see them inviting Shepshed to Butlin Roadway next weekend and going to the Sports Ground this Saturday to deal with a Lye Town group currently in 16th area in the table.The two sides played out a 0-0 attract the reverse component back at the end of November, when midfielder Sam Belcher missed out on an early penalty for the Valley.This weekend’s Black Nation opponents also enjoyed triumph on Tuesday evening with a 4-1 house success over AFC Wulfrunians– their first win in four attempts, but usually it has actually been a frustrating season for Lye, who have failed to construct on 8th and 4th positioned finishes in 2015/16 and 2016/17 respectively.Rugby are now level on points with sixth put Coventry Sphinx, although their local rivals have actually played three video games less than Dave Stringer’s men, whilst listed below them Westfields, Coventry United, Heanor and Shepshed all likewise have a variety of video games in hand over Town.Meanwhile at the

top of the department, Bromsgrove now hold a ten-point benefit over their closest competitors Coleshill, with third positioned Highgate’s run of excellent kind continuing with back-to-back wins in 3 days to close the gap between them and Coleshill to two points, with Highgate’s return coming from 2 video games less. # The club’s yearly presentation evening will occur in the Butlin Roadway hospitality suite on Friday, May 4 with all a 7pm start. All advocates are welcome to attend. # The coach to Lye on Saturday will leave the clubhouse at 11.45 am. For newest details contact Tony Mann on 07970 691366.

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